March 2010
68 posts
“This sense of quickness, of being alive on this earth, of simple orgasmic sense perception, is the point at which great photographs are made. Photographs come from that moment in the process of cognition before the mind has analyzed meaning or the eyes design and at which the experience and the person experiencing are fully, intuitively, existentially there. Such images look like photographs, not paintings: there is a tremendous sense of stopped time, of the blinking shutter, of being alive and still there, of discovery (rather than analysis), of chance, not design, of quick emotion from an uncertain cause. Photography is at its best when it deals with the very act of seeing in itself and not with recollections in tranquility or dilletantism of design.”
—((charles harbutt))
“an object at rest tends to stay at rest and an object in motion tends to stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.”
—newton’s first law.
The Kickstarter Blog: Jeff Mangum & the Chris Knox Benefit →
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As you may have seen on Pitchfork this morning, on May 6 Yo La Tengo, Magnetic Fields, Sharon Von Etten, the Clean, Kyp Malone from TV on the Radio, and — amazingly — Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel will play a benefit show for New Zealand musician and legend Chris Knox at Le Poisson Rouge in…
i’m there. fuck beach house and washed out at webster. JEFF MANGUM! MAGNETIC FIELDS! YO LA TENGO! someone wants me to have the best may 6th of my life. i’m almost afraid to post this because i know i’ll just be telling more people about it, which will contribute to the rate it will sell out before i get a chance to buy the tickets…
deactivating facebook is a wonderful thing.
